The Boundaryless Career

A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era

Edited by Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau

The Boundaryless Career

A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era

Edited by Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau

Description

Organizational restructuring and global, hypercompetition have revolutionized careers and destroyed the traditional blueprint for advancement and career success. This book details the new forms work takes in the new organizational era where worker mobility has become critical to the well-being and learning of both people and firms.The Boundaryless Career approaches the new principle of the boundaryless career in five directions. The first section helps the reader explore the nature of boundarlyess careers by highlighting some of their essential elements. The second section turns to competitive advantage and the role of workers' knowledge. The thirs section concentrates on the role of the social structure in the organizing of work. The fourth section turns to
focus on how boundaryless careers affect personal development and growth. The fifth section addresses the demands boundaryless careers create for schools, communities, and other social institutions. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors offer frameworks for conceptualizing careers now and in the future.The Boundarly Career provides a conceptual map of new career and employment forms to the prospective benefit of people making career choices, companies re-crafting human resource practices, schools and universities re-considering their roles, and policy-makers concerned with regional or national competitiveness. It will be essential reading for scholars in a range of social science disciplines spanning themes of economics, management, education, organizational behavior,
and the psychology and sociology of work. It will also appeal broadly to free thinkers interested in the changing nature of careers and employment as both people and firms tackle the realities of increasingly open markets and global competition.

The Boundaryless Career

A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era

Edited by Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau

Table of Contents

Contributors1. Introduction: The Boundaryless Career as New Employment Principle, Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. RousseauI. Exploring the Nature of Boundaryless Careers 2. Beyond Boundaries: Open Labor Markets and Learning in Silicon Valley, AnnaLee Saxenian3. Enactment and the Boundaryless Career: Organizing as We Work, Karl . Weick4. Careers in project Networks: The Case of the Film Industry, Candace Jones5. Careers Change as Organizations Learn, David F. Robinson and Anne S. MinerII. The Competitive Advantages of Knowledge Based in Boundaryless Careers 6. Twenty-First-Century Careers, Raymond E. Miles and Charles C. Snow7. Boundaryless Contexts and Careers: A Competency-Based Perspective, Robert J. DeFillippi andMichael B. Arthur8. Prometheus Stretches: Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge in Multiemployer Careers, Ted Baker and Howard E. Aldrich9. Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: Considerations for Boundaryless Careers, Allan BirdIII. The Social Structure of Boundaryless Careers 10. Subjectivism, Discovery, and Boundaryless Careers: An Austrian Perspective, Jerry Ellig and Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery11. Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital, Holly J. Raider and Ronald S. Burt12. Global Boundaryless Careers: Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses, Cherlyn Skromme Granose and Bee Leng Chua13. The Rhetoric of Boundaryless - Or, How the Newly Empowered Managerial Class Bought into Its Own Marginalization, Pual M. Hirsch and Mark ShanleyIV.Personal Development and Growth along the Boundaryless Careers Path 14. Psychological Success and the Boundaryless Career, Philip H. Mirvis and Douglas T. Hall15. Challenging the Last Boundary: Reconnecting Work and Family, Joyce K. Fletcher and Lotte Bailyn16. Mentoring and the Boundaryless Career: Lessons from the Minority Experience, David Thomas and Monica Higgins17. Feminization at Work: Career Implications, Nanette FondasV. Social Institutions in the New Organizational Era 18. The Bounded Career and the Demise of the Civil Society, Charles Perrow19. Community-Based Careers and Economic Virtue: Arming, Disarming, and Rearming the Springfield, Western Massachusetts, Metalworking Region, Michael H. Best and Robert Forrant20. Occupations,
Organizations, and Boundaryless Careers, Pamela S. Tolbert21. Moving In, Up, or Out: Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals of Career Attainments, James E. Rosenbaum and Shazia Rafiullah Miller22. Conclusion: A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era, Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. RousseauIndex

The Boundaryless Career

A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era

Edited by Michael B. Arthur and Denise M. Rousseau

Reviews and Awards

"A fascinating, timely and formidably knowledgeable collection of original scholarly papers taking career studies into the coming century. The Boundaryless Career is something of a one-volume Encyclopedia on the changing nature of contemporary occupations and organizations."--John Van Maanen, Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"...an exciting, important contribution to career literature, presenting ideas from thirty-four authors...The editors have gathered impressive, well-informed, thoughtful authors, who present their ideas with clarity and vigor."--Human Resource Planning

"...Arthur and Rousseau (and the contributing scholars) are to be appluaded. This is a volume that will serve as the basis for future research on the career changes we are currently experiencing. The Boundaryless Career is an important work that makes a crucial contribution to the literature on careers." --Personnel Psychology